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Soapboxmom
03-25-2011, 01:32 PM
Are you tired of spammers and scammers flooding your Twitter account with their spam? Are you wanting to stop known scammers from using Twitter to advertise for free and defraud the public?

Let's make a list here of those scammers using Twitter to tweet their spam ads for free and shut them down. To report these characters you must follow the offender. Go to their page by clicking on their avatar and follow them. Look for the little gear on the right directly above their recent tweets. Click on that icon and select report ---------------- for spam. If enough folks take action this free scam promotion will be stopped! :RpS_thumbup:

Here are a few to start with:

Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/oceansidenet)

Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/theevolver)

Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/DwayneDStevens)

ProfHenryHiggins
03-25-2011, 03:28 PM
I've found that Twitter is very responsive to abuse reports and shuts down spam accounts quite fast once informed (at least during the work week).
Since I don't have a Twitter account myself, I email my reports to abuse@twitter.com.

Soapboxmom
03-26-2011, 07:54 PM
Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/adamhorwitz)